Wondrous armchair travel

The intrepid editors of LIFE magazine apparently aren’t easily satisfied; rather than stop at Seven Wonders of the World, in LIFE Wonders of the World they explore 50 of them, from ancient to modern, natural to man-made. Each wondrous entity—such as the Empire State Building, the Serengeti and the International Space Station, to name a few—gets the full-on LIFE magazine...

A wonderful LIFE

Many of the images from the pages of LIFE magazine are iconic: the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square on V-J Day by Alfred Eisenstaedt, the aerial shot of a near drowning on Coney Island by Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks' "American Gothic" portrait of cleaner Ella Watson, Larry Burrow's photo of a GI shot dead onboard the Yankee Papa 13 in Vietnam, Phillipe Halsman's swirling...